Through co-counseling with approximately 200 pro bono attorneys, FVAP appeals and defends custody and restraining order decisions and other cases involving domestic violence.
Sadly, some of the clients accused of terrorism that I and other criminal defense lawyers have sworn an oath to protect and defend have not been safe in the custody of the United States.
If he is, then the state officer holding him in custody is a trespasser, and cannot defend the wrong or tort committed by him, by pleading his official character.
The men, who have not been taken into custody, allegedly failed to take measures to defend Fukushima Daiichi, despite being aware of the risk from a tsunami.
Lawyers for her mother, Felipa Berrera, say their client is guilty of nothing more than being a poor immigrant, unable to defend herself because she lacked an interpreter in court at a first custody proceeding last year.
Material mined online has been used against people battling for child custody or defending themselves in criminal cases.
Paradoxically, the person Mr. Manso may have harmed the most, Mr. Jackett, who was forced to drop his custody battle, defended him.
In a country where lawyers are being taken under custody for defending 'Gülenists', do these men and women who have spent a lifetime for academia stand a chance before those judges?
After police played the recording to him in custody he said it was "not nice to hear" and was "weird to defend".
She took the stand on Tuesday in a surprise move to defend herself against charges that she hired a relative, Mikhail Mallayev, to kill her husband during a fierce custody battle over their 4-year-old daughter, Michelle.
Some of his positions deviated from a typical progressive platform, like his statements that he would deliver inmates directly into the custody of immigration authorities outside the jail and would consider giving deputies metal flashlights to defend themselves against inmates.
